babyjaguar this movie is not the greatest horror film, but if you are in a 80's retro feel, evil laugh is for you. one thing that is positive, that the efforts of director and producer demonstrated that the 80's was not bad for independent movies in America. Steven and Dominick have great insightful commentaries on the DVD release of this flick. they often commented about how easy it was to collaborate and seek sponsor from their families and businesses. they even talked about giving McDonald's breakfast to their crew! and always they got a small percentage, and thy traveled with the film in japan and the USA.Dominick kept on ranking how this film was revolutionary, before Wes craven's scream movies. there is a character who is a horror film buff!

Greta-Garbo Yeah, it's dreadfully bad, but in it's infinite badness is an enjoyable film, which one can watch with friends on a friday night and laugh your ass off. The dialogue is ridiculous, the acting is horrible, the death scenes are hilarious (one guys gets his head cooked in a microwave) and everything else is just lazy. I can't think of a funnier movie.

Filmmaker84 A group of med students spend the weekend fixing up an old house. Of course this was the site of a horrible massacre, and of course there is going to be a new slaughter this weekend with the med students on the menu.I love horror movies frankly, so the plot of this movie doesn't exactly bother me. The slasher genre is the only one that can get away with using the same plot over and over again in my book. The problems with this movie is that once you move from the plot everything else is awful.The character are written and acted like they come right out of a sitcom. ( one girl acts just like "chrissy" from THREES COMPANY) The actors are also very bad, but you can't blame then so much. Yes they can't act, but the script didn't help much. The dialogue is outright ridiculous. The Gore is really unconvincing, and this looks to be filmed on video. Not that is uncommon today almost all horror movies ( and independent movies) are filmed that way now. But we have digital video, they have a 80's camcorder.The movie also seems to be a showcase for Steven Baio, like every scene was structured to make him the focus even though he is not the main character. What this film does have going for it is it's parallels to SCREAM. Some scenes are very similar. It does have one decent murder to it as well.As bad as this movie is, I have to say there is something about it that made me rent it 3 times. of course it is because I found it to be hysterical, ( there is even a a spur of the moment dance number that had me on the floor crying from laughing) but hey, it put money in the producers pockets so I'm sure they don't care why I watched it.Really bad ( 4/ 10)

bad_movie_buff "Evil Laugh" is the perfect example of a no-budget mid-80's slasher. By this time (1986), slasher films were getting really old. Even the popular franchises like "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th" were running out of steam. But this flick rises above the rest just because it's so damn fun. It's cheap, cheerful, and cheesy . . . and that, my friends, is one great combo!The basic plot goes like this: A group of perky med students arrive at a deserted California house where they will help their doctor-friend set it up into an orphanage. But when they get there, the doctor is mysteriously gone. Unbeknownst to them, he was killed off in a pre-credits sequence by someone wearing blue rubber dishwashing gloves and wielding a knife! Still, the friends go ahead with their plan. They clean up the house (in a hilariously bad dance number where they sweep the floors and moonwalk to some crappy 80's soft rawk!), have sex, and in one sick twist unknowingly eat their doctor-friend's heart for dinner! Grossss! But anyways, the blue-gloved killer is still prowling the grounds and begins killing the teens off one-by-one in a variety of gory ways.It is revealed (and note that this is NOT a spoiler of any kind) that the orphanage once burned down when the caretaker, Martin, was accused of molesting the children . . . has Martin returned from the grave? Or is someone else, stabbing, slashing and microwaving (!) their way through the cast? Watch it to find out!As I said earlier, and numerous other reviewers said before me, "Evil Laugh" is a really cheap production. The film was shot in 9 days (yikes!) on 16 mm but blown up for its theatrical release, and as you could imagine, the picture quality is terrible (even on the DVD). Not only that, but the acting is pretty weak at times and actor-turned-director Dominick Brascia is less-than-marvelous behind the camera.But there's still plenty here to sink your teeth into. Any horror fan will defintely get a kick out of comparing this to Kevin Williamson's seminal (but slightly overrated) "Scream" (1996). In both films there is a horror movie-loving nerd who warns his friends of impeding danger, here it's a guy named Barney (played likeably by Jerold Pearson), who seems to be the only one that's the least bit worried that the orphanage was once the place for a brutal murder spree. Not only that, but throughout the movie Barney continuously makes references to films like "Friday the 13th" (1980) -- In once scene he says to his friends, "I just hope a guy with a hockey mask named Jason doesn't show up!" You can't help but wonder if Williamson saw this flick before he wrote "Scream" (1996). Maybe it's a bit farfetched, but who knows . . . it's no secret that he was a huge fan of 80's slasher movies.Also of interest are the constant homoerotic undertones. Normally they would be rather bothersome (especially in a slasher movie), but here they are so obvious and blatant that they're hilarious. The guys just seem way too "touchie-feelie" with eachother (was it me or did Barney and that blonde jock come across as a bit more than just friends?), and you know something's wrong when there is more male nudity than female nudity. In fact, the most memorable scene in "Evil Laugh" basically brings this theory home. In this scene, two teenagers are making love in one of the bedrooms. Unbeknowst to them, someone has cut a whole in the mattress and is hiding underneath it. In a demented parody of that classic scene in "The Haunting," the hand reaches out from underneath the mattress and begins fondling the guy's butt. At first the guy thinks that it's his girlfriend, but then he realizes that his girlfriend COULDN'T be fondling his butt . . . naturally it all turns out to be a false scare, an unintentionally hilarious one at that, where it is rather disturbingly revealed to be Barney playing another one of his jokes. (And btw, the guy getting his butt fondled was the blonde jock -- see what I mean now?) Now, Barney DOES say to the jock "I was aiming for Tina, honest!" but that just doesn't seem like a reasonable enough excuse to put the scene in the film in the first place. You're not fooling me, Brascia!Overall, "Evil Laugh" is a really fun, really demented low-budget effort that will be very entertaining if you go into it with an open mind. I gave it a B-.